Being a Type

For most people, here’s how it works.

If you’re a type, then others can discern your social value by comparing you to other people of your type.

If you are typeless, people don’t have anything to compare you with. They cannot figure out “who you are”; they don’t know how to evaluate you.

Types can be interpreted in two ways:

1. Types are attractors in personality space.
2. Types are social roles / characters. A type tells you who you should be and what you should do.

Arb: if it’s true that you can be evaluated relative to other members of your type, then you could be a… This basically matches my observations of the world; like, someone who is a top tier “Trader Joe’s guy/girl” is gonna have way more romantic success than someone who is a low or even mid tier “finance bro”. So the arb is to intentionally move to a type that you can be really high up in.

Examples of types: todo lol